pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
One of the benefits of being in the DJ booth with local monitors is being unable to hear such twats.
You can see them, and naturally the heart sinks, but you can't hear them.
DJs - what format/setup do you use?
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One of the benefits of being in the DJ booth with local monitors is being unable to hear such twats.
You can see them, and naturally the heart sinks, but you can't hear them.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Vinyl as much as possible but I do have one Stanton CD deck 'cos I have a lot of rare stuff on CDR that I couldn't hope to ever afford on vinyl.
Used to be a bit snobby about it, but what's the point? Better to play the music you like than obsess about getting the original on vinyl.
I almost believe that.
Used to be a bit snobby about it, but what's the point? Better to play the music you like than obsess about getting the original on vinyl.
I almost believe that.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Vinyl as much as possible but I do have one Stanton CD deck 'cos I have a lot of rare stuff on CDR that I couldn't hope to ever afford on vinyl.
Used to be a bit snobby about it, but what's the point? Better to play the music you like than obsess about getting the original on vinyl.
I almost believe that.
I'd agree that plenty of the good shit isn't available on vinyl, hence the need for at least one CD deck.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Oh come on, I think it's fair to say that both of them will admit to having done less than ideal sets over the years due to being wankered
God I want this.
...already hooked up with serato included, although the 600 looks way better
But I want the Numark NS7 so much more. Although as an amateur I don't think I could ever justify a grand for a bit of kit, and it takes up so much space.
Dj TAB
Mr Whippy
I used to be in a band with Chris - he might be coming down to my birthday bash in April
He's a well respected DJ who has worked his arse off.
I agree. Shame we missed him at last years unsound...
I think my earlier comment concerning sloppy dj'ing has been mis-interpreted. Even the best dj's are human and can make mistakes.
My bad...
xes
F.O.A.D
now will you tell me what style of music lends itself to sloppy beatmatching?
extratone?
Dj TAB
Mr Whippy
Oh come on, I think it's fair to say that both of them will admit to having done less than ideal sets over the years due to being wankered
Thanks Bees
...after the Megadog years, from fledgling beginnings at the Robey in Finsbury park, then to The Rocket in Holloway and then the Brixton Academy. me and mrs TAB were grinning through most of them, bouncing away happily! They were inordinately messy affairs, I think we even heard Orbital push a few wrong buttons once, and as far as I'm concerned they come close to God himself....
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
now will you tell me what style of music lends itself to sloppy beatmatching?
Breakcore?
Dj TAB
Mr Whippy
now will you tell me what style of music lends itself to sloppy beatmatching?
...yep, stuff without beats!
...mind you it is possible to blend records not at the same pitch, and lends itself to fairly minimal stuff. As long as when the faders open the beats are syncopated it will sound alright. Failing that if you have teh skills you can scratch extra any number of extra beats or parts of beats in or out...
Breakcore, post rock, drone, gregorian chant.now will you tell me what style of music lends itself to sloppy beatmatching?
editor
hiraethified
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Jeff Mills was interviewed in The Wire recently and this is why he prefers decks to other ways of DJing:
(after being asked how he felt about his recent gig DJing with CDs)
J: It’s different, and I really don’t like it so much. Having to look at a list of what’s on the disc and pushing too many buttons. …. Vinyl, you don’t have to look at the meter. Your mind can be elsewhere, your eyes can be elsewhere. You use your ears less in the digital format than you do in analogue, in a vinyl situation, because your listening very much to the frequencies to know, or the structure of the song to give you cues for when to do what. Or how to weed away those frequencies so that you can mix the next record in. But when you have to look at the screen or a computer read out it’s different. In some cases, it’s OK, because last night I was concerned about the vibration, because we were setting things on the floor. But I would much prefer to use vinyl, because of the physical aspect of connecting with this motion, this clockwise motion of this disc, information, the frailty of it all. The needle is just tracking on the surface of this record. And that any jolt would totally disorient it, and everyone else, and myself. And that I think is most reflective of the life of what we are, and who we are and how we live. We don’t control our destiny, we don’t control our life, we don’t control what tomorrow is going to be. It’s by coincidence. We have to adapt. And that I think it is why I think I like vinyl the most, because it puts you right on the edge of disaster. And that I still like.
(after being asked how he felt about his recent gig DJing with CDs)
J: It’s different, and I really don’t like it so much. Having to look at a list of what’s on the disc and pushing too many buttons. …. Vinyl, you don’t have to look at the meter. Your mind can be elsewhere, your eyes can be elsewhere. You use your ears less in the digital format than you do in analogue, in a vinyl situation, because your listening very much to the frequencies to know, or the structure of the song to give you cues for when to do what. Or how to weed away those frequencies so that you can mix the next record in. But when you have to look at the screen or a computer read out it’s different. In some cases, it’s OK, because last night I was concerned about the vibration, because we were setting things on the floor. But I would much prefer to use vinyl, because of the physical aspect of connecting with this motion, this clockwise motion of this disc, information, the frailty of it all. The needle is just tracking on the surface of this record. And that any jolt would totally disorient it, and everyone else, and myself. And that I think is most reflective of the life of what we are, and who we are and how we live. We don’t control our destiny, we don’t control our life, we don’t control what tomorrow is going to be. It’s by coincidence. We have to adapt. And that I think it is why I think I like vinyl the most, because it puts you right on the edge of disaster. And that I still like.
now will you tell me what style of music lends itself to sloppy beatmatching?
It depends what you mean by 'sloppy', obviously bad mixing is bad mixing, but loose mixing is something different imo.
Check out Terrence Parker One of the greatest DJs there is in my mind, he has what I would call a loose style, inc scratching etc.. although i'm sure there are some who would say he was tight as fuck :0)
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
vinyl
CDs
laptop
desktop
minidiscs
and tapes at times
no 8 tracks though
"qu'importes le flacon pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse"
I ain't a "proper" DJ though
CDs
laptop
desktop
minidiscs
and tapes at times
no 8 tracks though
"qu'importes le flacon pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse"
I ain't a "proper" DJ though
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
It makes complete sense to me (which is rare for Mills)
makes sense to me too... one of the best djs i ever saw was cajmere in about 96 or 7 - he was mixing together all this screaming vocal chi-town stuff with pounding techno and ranting over the top into a set pf headphones... the mixing was on the edge of disaster throughout, but he just pulled it off each time, and it was incredibly exciting...
editor
hiraethified
I certainly manage that regularly.
Sounds like complete toss to me, but each to their own I guess
it's cos you have no soul.
hiccup
King of the Vagabonds
I only really play vinyl, but just because I've got lots of it, and I can't afford CD decks... that said, at my girlfriend's work Christmas party I used two turntables, one dodgy CD player, someone's iPhone and my mobile, all running through the same mixer. There wasn't a lot of precise beat matching going on that evening, for sure.
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